Transforming Education into a Learning System: Reflections on the Pandemic

In this brief, Carnegie Corporation of New York and EducationCounsel explore how the American education system responded to the COVID-19 pandemic, identifying gaps (missed opportunities and systemic shortcomings that deepened the challenges our schools faced) and bright spots (existing and new efforts where learning system approaches supported more effective action). Drawing on those lessons, the authors argue that the pandemic has strengthened the case for a learning system approach while sharing resources and examples to help educators do that hard but essential work.

Program: Education